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History of Allegan and Barry Counties, Michigan
pub. D. W. Ensign & Co., Philadelphia - 1880


         [p. 461-462]
         
         PLINY McOMBER
         
         The parents of PLINY McOMBER were residents of Galway,
       Saratoga Co., N.Y., at the time of his birth, which
       occurred in that place on the 15th of March, 1825. When
       PLINY was about eight years of age the family removed to
       Marion, Wayne Co., N.Y., where he attended the district
       school during the winter terms. In 1836 the advantages
       offered by the new State of Michigan began to attract
       great attention among the farmers of the Eastern States,
       and a very large and constantly increasing emigration
       was the result. Among those who became infected with
       this almost universal desire to remove West for the pur-
       pose of bettering their fortunes on the virgin lands of
       the Peninsular State was MR. RICHARD McOMBER, who came
       to Michigan in the summer of 1837, and purchased the
       northeast quarter of section 22, in Johnstown (now Maple
       Grove), and removed to it with his family in the fall of
       1838. The purchase had been made from JOHN MOTT, whose
       daughters were living in the neighborhood, one of these
       - Miss EMMA MOTT - being teacher of the school which
       PLINY first attended in Michigan.
       
         He remained at home with his father, assisting in the
       labors of the farm, until 1848, when, in company with
       two sons of DR. HARWOOD, he engaged in the erection of
       a sawmill on Cedar Creek, in section 9, of the township
       of Baltimore (then Johnstown). He continued to operate
       this mill for about three years, when he returned to his
       father's farm, but soon after went to Palmyra, Wayne Co.,
       N.Y., for the purpose of attending school at that place.
       After a year of study at Palmyra he returned home, but
       in the year 1852 he again went to New York State, where
       he attended school at Palmyra, Wayne Co., for about one
       year. While there he made the acquaintance of Miss EMILY
       SANFORD, who became his wife on the 2d of March, 1854. 
       The newly-married couple came to Michigan and lived in
       the family of his father. On the death of the latter,
       PLINY McOMBER come into the possession of the homestead,
       where he still resides.
       
         MR. McOMBER, who was originally an old-line Whig,
       became an ardent Republican, and continued a firm
       adherent to the principles of that party from its
       birth, in 1856, until the organization of the Green-
       back party, when he transferred his support to the
       latter.
       
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